Update for the week ending on Friday, Feb 6, 2026

mtlynch.io

• Published My Eighth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder
• Worked on Eversource write-up

Refactoring English

• Updated the purchase page to say you can get a refund if you don’t like the book.

Little Moments

Little Moments is an open-source web app I’m working on to replace the current family photo sharing app (TinyBeans) I used (which I strongly dislike).

• Continued working on design doc

ScreenJournal

ScreenJournal is basically Goodreads, but for TV and movies. Or letterboxd, but focused on small communities.

• Switched to Sendamatic for SMTP
  • I got tired of Postmark after Active Campaign bought them
• Narrow the scope of notification emails on comment replies
  • It was emailing everyone, even if they hadn’t interacted with the review
  • I forgot and didn’t realize until I saw Sendamatic’s logs showing it emailed 9 people for a test comment I left a review
  • Now the behavior is it just emails the review author and anyone else who already commented
• Consolidate .clinerules into AGENTS.md
  • I’m pretty unlikely to return to Cline at this point
• Resized the review <textarea> to fit content
  • I was doing this manually by grabbing the corner, but it’s nice to have it auto-expand.
• Had exe.dev’s Shelley suggest improvements to the codebase and accepted these:
  • Split metadata.go into movie.go and tv_show.go for discoverability
  • Fix trailing hyphen in migration filename
  • Extract read-then-authorize boilerplate into helper methods
    • This one, I needed to smooth out a little

Pointer Brother

• Added a redact button
  • Sometimes I want to share a screenshot with a portion blocked out

NixOS config

AI sandbox

• Adjusted podman image handling so now they all share a single image and a single Nix store
  • Before, each directory’s podman stuff would take 100-300 GB, so I was quickly exhausting SSD space
• Fixed my dev shell detection script to use JSON output instead of stdout
  • It turned out that colored text output messed up the matching
• Added a --skip-flake option to my sandbox command
  • Previously, it always tried to load a flake.nix file and failed if it couldn’t
  • The problem was that if I broke my flake.nix, it meant I couldn’t switch to my LLM sandbox to fix it

Misc

• Added a link to awesome-meshcore
• Reported another security vulnerability to a vendor